Taylor: Displaying enemies’ skulls not wrong

IN AN unusual defence against war crimes charges, former Liberian president Charles Taylor has told judges that he saw nothing wrong with displaying the skulls of slain enemy soldiers at roadblocks.

Taylor: Displaying enemies’ skulls not wrong

Taylor, 61, insisted he was trying to bring peace and the rule of law to Liberia, as he testified in his own defence on the third full day of his trial.

He is charged with 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for allegedly supporting rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone who unleashed a campaign of terror in their country’s 1991-2002 civil war. Some 500,000 people were killed, mutilated or victims of other atrocities.

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